What did you mod today?

Because he COULD!
Nice one, looks pretty stinking awesome! :smiley:

I’m still amazed how you guys do this type of mod. Nice work.
I see you have a cat picture ready to enter into OL latest giveaway. :slight_smile:

where can i buy illuminated tailcap?

Put an XP-L Hi into a Solarforce Pro-1 and hooked up a 2.8A driver I had, running a single 18650.

Works ok. :slight_smile:

Visit the link in my signature to order parts to build your own if you’d like. I don’t sell them personally.

Sometimes it’s the simple things…

I “modded” the new Trustfire TR-J20 and gained 1000 lumens plus a few. Easy peasy mod, as it were. My Trustfire 32650’s came in from Richard, they bested the BASEN 26650’s by that 1000 lumens. Sometimes the right cell choice is HUGE, taking this one from 17.64A to 21.71A at the tail.

The UCLp lens gained me just shy of 400 lumens as well. So for a lens swap and the right cells I’m up 1400 lumens. I’m taking it! :wink:

“Final” count, 12,765 lumens out the front.

Cut it out Dale! One of these days you’re going to ignite the atmosphere leaving nothing but a charred wasteland.

What driver did you put in the TG06? I am liking the yellows/reds/oranges!

Must admit I’m really liking that yellow gold tailcap. Todays mod was another s2+. This one with A6 driver, triple CU spacer and triple V2 1A. This was a first in that the triple was huge. I tried the carclo and multiple hosts all nogo. First glass only triple. A little too cool for my liking but it certainly fills a room. Heading outside now. Also finished one that did nothing but cause problems.

Are you accusing him of being an economist? :stuck_out_tongue:

A glass triple optic? Where did you get it? Can you post a link to it?

This thread certainly lacks pics…WE NEED PICS !

It has one of wight’s PZL drivers, 6 7135’s for 2.2amps to a shaved 219c

Copper, what’s not to love?

Those were done last week,

Yesterday was an all out blitz on the lathe to complete 7 lights with heat sinks for a friend. 7 hours on the lathe, then I came in and re-assembled the lights. Each light had cooling fins cut and some additions to aid grip on the tube. Even made my first cutting tool from an old (some 70 years) High Speed Steel planer blade. :slight_smile:

I’m too old for this… :frowning:

Add: My first triple that a carclo would not fit so had to use a “clear glass lens only” No clearance using the giant CU spacer.

Shadow JM35 XHP50

I wanted to increase the current transit, but I also wanted that the change was fully reversible; so I removed the spring at the base of the tail and replaced with a spacer, realized by compressing the aluminum foil. The compactness of the spacer is such that even the front spring is compressed up to touch, between them, all the coils.
I got a good increase in current flow, I think a good 25% (When I can I will make the instrumental comparisons).

And now I can use the protected battery, both 26650 (test with protected Soshine 4200) and 18650 (test with different protected batteries).
The spacer for unprotected batteries is 10mm thick; for protected is 6mm thick.

i also have a red flashlight! and i even know why i built it! :student:
I haven’t used it much neither. but since the host was called torpedo, and looks like one, i thought about submarines and red light, so i put a red xp-e in it… :slight_smile:

yesterday and today i made my first triple! A red convoy s2+ with xm-l2 4c that lacked the UI of a nice BLF fet+1 driver that my A6s have…
I didn’t have any spacer, so i made one from cheap copper boards and copper pieces probably salvaged from somewhere… not sure if the heat transfer will be optimal, but hopefully good enough!
I used one of the blf fet+1 drivers from banggood, so i guess turbo timer is somewhere around 90 sec, probably too long for this 35 W flashlight.
The leds i used was a mix of 3x XP-L: v6 0d, v5 2a and u5 7a (at least according to fasttech)
when i compared the tint to xp-l 5A and 3D, it was less “rosy” than 5A, and less green than 3D.
Bypassed springs, and ~11A with HE2/HG2

A Thorfire C8s with BLF A6 driver and a nice XP-L HI V2-3B on Noctigon :

And a nice 219C triple in my CNQG Brass Beauty !
I still have to swap the driver for a Qlite 3A :

Made an extension tube, pretty little thing! Danged square threads were just about the death of me!

Polished it to a mirror finish after taking that shot, man does it look sweet! :slight_smile:

And while I was at it, I scrutinized the details. The devil lurks there, don’t ya know! I removed the ano under the driver for better ground contact, and removed ano on the end of the battery tube as well as bottom of the head for a clean al to al contact between the battery tube and head. Paid off!

Amperage is up from 21.71 to 23.03, Lumens is up from 12,765 to 13, 524! :smiley:

That’s probably where it stops, but folks, look for the little things, enough of those addressed can make big differences! :wink: